Open Source Veteran Bdale Garbee Joins FreedomBox Foundation Board

NEW YORK, March 10, 2011-- The FreedomBox Foundation, based here,
today announced that Bdale Garbee has agreed to join the Foundation's
board of directors and chair its technical advisory committee. In that
role, he will coordinate development of the FreedomBox and its
software.

Garbee is a longtime leader and developer in the free software
community. He serves as Chief Technologist for Open Source and
Linux at Hewlett Packard, is chairman of the Debian Technical
Committee, and is President of Software in the Public Interest, the
non-profit organization that provides fiscal sponsorship for the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution and other projects. In 2002, he served
as Debian Project Leader.

"Bdale has excelled as a developer and leader in the free software
community. He is exactly the right person to guide the technical
architecture of the FreedomBox," said Eben Moglen, director of the
FreedomBox Foundation.

"I'm excited to work on this project with such an enthusiastic
community," said Garbee. "In the long-term, this may prove to be most
important thing I'm doing right now."

The Foundation's formation was announced in Brussels on February 4,
and it is actively seeking funds; it recently raised more than $80,000
in less than fifteen days on Kickstarter.

About the FreedomBox Foundation

The FreedomBox project is a free
software effort that will distribute computers that allow users to
seize control of their privacy, anonymity and security in the face of
government censorship, commercial tracking, and intrusive internet
service providers.

Eben Moglen is Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and
the Founding Director of the FreedomBox Foundation, a new non-profit
incorporated in Delaware. It is in the process of applying for
501(c)(3) status. Its mission is to support the creation and
worldwide distribution of FreedomBoxes.